Question

I’d like to override the default system control tint for my app to be always NSGraphiteControlTint. The following code doesn’t seem to work though. Any suggestions?

NSButton *button = [window standardWindowButton:NSWindowCloseButton];
[[button cell] setControlTint:NSGraphiteControlTint];

Regards,
Erik

Answer 1

You set the AppleAquaColorVariant preference:

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger:NSGraphiteControlTint forKey:@"AppleAquaColorVariant"];

However, if you want it to work the first time the app launches, you must do it before any UI is drawn, in main before calling NSApplicationMain, or you can use a custom subclass of NSApplication, and call it in its -init method before [super init]